We Have to Talk About the Cost Of “Handmade”
How Artisans Price Their Handcrafted Work
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8 min readSep 29, 2023
Pricing is one of the hardest decisions artisans have to make. Unlike modern retailers who may price their products as a “loss leader” or strategically price them as high as the market will bear, artisans generally price their products with a simple and transparent formula: (the cost of Materials + Time) multiplied by…